Medicare Data Show Gap On Hospital Performance, Perception

Source: Steve Sternberg and Christopher Schnaars / USA Today More than 120 hospitals given top marks by patients for providing excellent care also have a darker distinction: high death rates for heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, a USA TODAY analysis of new Medicare data has found. Experts say the newspaper's analysis of data released today by Medicare offers a window into the relationship between patients' perceptions of the the quality of their hospital care and more objective measures, such [...]